September 26, 2014 - Madrid, Spain
to be held as part of
IEEE Cluster 2014 (proceedings published by IEEE)

GENERAL SCOPE

Due to the success of the previous edition of the workshop (see PBio 2013, as part of ACM EuroMPI 2013, and the special issue in the journal Parallel Computing), this year we organize the second edition of this international workshop as part of the prestigious conference IEEE Cluster 2014 (proceedings published by IEEE).

In Bioinformatics, we can find a variety of problems which are affected by huge processing times and memory/storage consumption, due to the large size of biological data sets and the inherent complexity of biological problems. In fact, Bioinformatics is one of the most exciting research areas in which Parallelism finds application. Successful examples are mpiBLAST, RAxML-HPC or ClustalW-MPI, among many others. In conclusion, Bioinformatics allows and encourages the application of many different parallelism-based technologies. The focus of this workshop is on cluster-based approaches, but we welcome any technique based on: multicore computing, supercomputing, cloud computing, grid computing, green computing, hardware accelerators as GPUs, FPGAs, etc.

TOPICS

The goal of PBio is therefore to bring together researchers in the fields of Parallelism and Bioinformatics, hence establishing a forum for discussing challenges, new ideas, results, applications, and future directions. In conclusion, we seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION, AND PUBLICATION

PBio 2014 welcomes original submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by another conference or journal. Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not exceeding 9 pages in English. The paper must be formatted according to the IEEE Xplore format for publication. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the workshop attendees. Papers shall be submitted electronically via EasyChair, see https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pbio2014.

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. The author of a paper in the PBio workshop has two alternatives: s/he can make a full registration (with access to the whole IEEE Cluster conference and gala dinner) or only workshop registration (very economical, but without the previous coverage). Please, see IEEE Cluster registration for all the details.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by PBio's technical program committee. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the workshop proceedings published by IEEE. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit the IEEE Copyright Form.